Vitālijs Samoilovs

Vitālijs Samoilovs
Vitālijs Samoilovs
	Samoilovs on a 2000 stamp of Latvia
Born	17 April 1962; Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Position	Goalie
National team	Soviet Union
Playing career	1982–1991
Ice hockey

Vitālijs Samoilovs (Russian: Виталий Анатольевич Самойлов; born 17 April 1962) is a retired Latvian professional ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. Ethnically Russian, he played for Dynamo Riga and Sokol Kiev.

The best season of his career was 1987-88, in which he made the Soviet National Team. He was the third-string goaltender at the 1987 Canada Cup and didn't appear in any games. He did, however, play in one game for the gold-medal-winning Soviet team at the 1988 Winter Olympics. Also that season, he backstopped Riga to a surprising second-place finish in the Championship League.

The following year, however, an injury caused him to lose his starting job in Riga to upstart Arturs Irbe and he never again regained his top form.

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